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Zonage (urbanisme)
Publications associées (27)
Tranquil Vertical Bathhouse in Hong Kong
The title of the project is From “Hortus Conclusus” to Tranquility Space in the City. By taking inspiration from the form, materials, and elements of medieval monasteries, the aim is to explore how to create physical and spiritual spaces of tranquility in ...
2023Seismic Testing of Adjacent Interacting Masonry Structures
Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic, Andrea Penna
Masonry buildings form building aggregates around the world in historical centers, which developed as the layout of the city or village densified. In these aggregates, adjacent buildings can share structural walls, connected at the interfaces by interlocki ...
2023Spatial Layout Optimization. Guideline: Analysis
Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz
The main objective of this project is to generate guidance for settlement planning on the optimisation of spatial designs in terms of: zoning, densification/decongestion, morphology of the built environment and strategic planning of public open space. Simi ...
EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022Towards sustainable housing in Switzerland: housing size as a link between tenants' residential decisions and environmental impact
Housing size is a key variable in determining the environmental footprint of residential buildings. Besides the environmental aspect, housing size is the result of residential decisions made by households, which are influenced by the interplay of factors o ...
2020Energy transition challenges in under-occupied homes: Assessment of two peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses
Current planning policies aim at putting a stop to urban sprawl by favouring densification processes. In this context, future developments are more likely to happen in strategic urban areas than in existing peri-urban neighbourhoods of single-family houses ...
2020Implementation of a sustainability monitoring tool into the dynamics of an urban brownfield regeneration project
Within the context of post-industrial European cities, the regeneration of urban brownfields contributes to limit urban sprawl by increasing cities density while revitalizing neighborhoods. Yet because of their complex nature, urban brownfields regeneratio ...
2019